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The Pleasure of the Text
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- ISBN
- 9780374521608
- Book Title
- Pleasure of the Text
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 1975
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.2 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Topic
- Semiotics & Theory
- Item Weight
- 4.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 80 Pages
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What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading . . . . Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in our reading as against the indifference of (mere) knowledge." --Richard Howard
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374521603
ISBN-13
9780374521608
eBay Product ID (ePID)
153630
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pleasure of the Text
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1975
Topic
Semiotics & Theory
Genre
Literary Criticism
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
4.2 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
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Barthes repeatedly compared teaching to play, reading to eros, writing to seduction. His voice became more and more personal, more full of grain, as he called it; his intellectual art more openly a performance, like that of the other great anti-systematizers . . . All of Barthes work is an exploration the histrionic or ludic; in many ingenious modes, a plea for savor, for a festive (rather than dogmatic or credulous) relation to ideas. For Barthes, the point is to make us bold, agile, subtle, intelligent, detached. And to give pleasure., "Barthes repeatedly compared teaching to play, reading to eros, writing to seduction. His voice became more and more personal, more full of grain, as he called it; his intellectual art more openly a performance, like that of the other great anti-systematizers . . . All of Barthes work is an exploration the histrionic or ludic; in many ingenious modes, a plea for savor, for a festive (rather than dogmatic or credulous) relation to ideas. For Barthes, the point is to make us bold, agile, subtle, intelligent, detached. And to give pleasure." -- Susan Sontag, "Barthes repeatedly compared teaching to play, reading to eros, writing to seduction. His voice became more and more personal, more full of grain, as he called it; his intellectual art more openly a performance, like that of the other great anti-systematizers . . . All of Barthes work is an exploration the histrionic or ludic; in many ingenious modes, a plea for savor, for a festive (rather than dogmatic or credulous) relation to ideas. For Barthes, the point is to make us bold, agile, subtle, intelligent, detached. And to give pleasure." --Susan Sontag
Dewey Decimal
801.93
Lc Classification Number
Pn45.B2813 1980
Copyright Date
1980
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